Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Violet Janet Rose was born in 1867 in New Zealand – the daughter of Charles Cowan Rose, a clerk, and Jane Agnes Leck. (See 66 J Rose)
She grew up in Dunedin & she married William John Sinclair Millar, a tobacconist, on 1 February 1887 at Knox Church, Dunedin.
They had two daughters and when Violet signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Dundas Street and William was working as a shipping clerk.
William died in Invercargill in 1895, he is buried in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.
Violet moved to Christchurch for a time then she married William Milne, a widower and miner, in 1928.
They lived in Alexandra in Central Otago then returned to Dunedin where William died in 1938.
Violet died on 18 September 1945, she is buried with William in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Invercargill City Council https://icc.govt.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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